Some of the main camps (Stammlager) had several satellite camps. These were usually smaller labour camps away from the main camp. Remember that by about 1940 the SS to some extent saw itself as a business entreprise, hiring out very cheap labour ... So, they had satellite camps at several workplaces and projects. Conditions at satellite camps varied: at some they were as bad or even worse than at the main camps, at others they were a little better. Many of the smaller satellite camps were temporary. Once the project was complete, the camp was dissolved and the inmates were sent elsewhere. At all satellite camps, the inmates were kept out of view of ordinary German workers and they were still subject to supervision by the SS.
Death camps were built to kill prisoners systematically
In the Holocaust satellite camps were smaller subcamps of major concentration camps. For example, Auschwitz had about 35 of them. to be exact they had 45 of them
what was Hitler's purpose for sending Jews to concentration camps and what is a concentration camp.
Concentration camps were used for forced prison labor, while extermination camps were built to kill all prisoners.
Concentration camps were where the 'undesirables' were sent (e.g., the jews, homosexuals, etc.), whereas the gestapo was the secret police
There is probably no difference. The holocast consisted of genocide. Hitler was going against the Jews so he sent all the Jews to concentration camps or death camps. There is probably no difference. The holocast consisted of genocide. Hitler was going against the Jews so he sent all the Jews to concentration camps or death camps.
Concentration camps were a fact of Nazi rule in Germany during the 1930s. Mass extermination in the death camps was post the invasion of Russia in summer 1941. I am making a difference between concentration camps as a prison for what were termed undesirables and those places where the Holocaust became a matter of Genocide. This does not mean that the older, original camps were in any way decent or proper, they were not. The difference was that, for the most part, the mass of murders were committed in the death camps in southern Poland between 1942 & 1944.
Technically all camps were within the concentration camp system, there were labour camps, transit camps and extermination camps. Concentration camps were generally intended for civillians, initially just for criminals, but gradually more types were included. Extermination camps were established about seven and a half years after the first concentration camps. They were much smaller than the average concentration camps (Auschwitz is an exception as it was both), as they only held enough inmates that were needed to opperate the gas chambers/vans and the cramatoria.
The key distinction was between extermination camps and labour camps ("ordinary" concentration camps).
Extermination camps were used to murder people as efficient as possible but keep some alive and use them for Labour work.
Death camps had the facilities to commit mass murder, they also had limited barracks as they did not house many inmates (Auschwitz was the exception as it was both).
It is estimated that there were 20,000 concentration camps. They were established between 1933 and 1945.